martin-cp doc source param

[BigBoulard]

martin-cp doc source param

[nyurik]

martin-cp can take any source as a parameter, which includes a combined comma-separated source as well. Do note that the default osm2pgsql output may not be what you want - take a look at the planetiler tool to generate your tiles directly from OSM dump in a much better schema and much faster.

[BigBoulard]

Do note that the default osm2pgsql output may not be what you want - take a look at the planetiler tool to generate your tiles directly from OSM dump in a much better schema and much faster.

Trying to create a public repo to illustrate something I struggle to do, I wondered why martin-cp needs postgres to generate a mbtiles file and if it's something mandatory. Because I understand martin can serve mbtiles files to render a map in a browser or another GIS client without postgres https://maplibre.org/martin/sources-files.html, hence this question. There is some context I'm missing about all these tools and their use cases, sorry if my question sounds stupid. I understand that martin-cp is still under development and cannot be considered 100% ready for mbtiles file generation, correct? But, still for serving tiles with Martin, I used to feed postgres with a map file from <download.geofabrik.de> using osm2pgsql and let Martin serve the tiles from postgres, is it still the advised procedure? Thank you so much.

[nyurik]

All depends on your usecase, as always. If you are building "base map" - use something like planetiler to pre-generate it into an mbtiles/pmtiles file. Generating tiles on the fly for the base map could be expensive (slow). Think of it as a tile cache. Martin can serve that file - no postgres needed.

If you are generating custom data on top of a base map, e.g. taxi info like in the demo, martin could get that data from a database, possibly even with custom parameters (like in the demo). If you are serving tiles and need some extras - like fonts or sprites - martin can handle that for you too.